It's not uncommon to want to impress your crush, but if these Reddit users are anything to go by, some people have taken their declarations of love to extreme levels.

After one user asked the question 'What is the most cringeworthy thing you did to woo your crush?' more than 4,500 people rushed to share their embarrassing tales in just 24 hours.

One lovelorn Casanova, known only as asldfbaslfbawlfyb, admitted he had picked flowers and left them in front of his crush's front door without an explanatory note, before later denying he'd had any part.

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Reddit users have revealed the most embarrassing things they've ever done to impress their crushes, inluding serenading them on the piano, sticking notes to their desk, and writing seven-page love letters

Another who went down the floral route was halfwoodenjacket, who said he had planted roses not only on a woman's doorstep, but also on her windshield, desk and coffee cup.

Traditional love notes also proved a popular theme, with mehdysphoria admitting she had written a letter - '7 pages of cringe' - for the object of her affection.

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When pressed to share the words, she confessed: 'Sadly I gave it to him and I never heard from him again.'

Another would-be poet said he had printed out lyrics by American band Green Day with 'I love you' written on the end, before taping them all over the desk and chair belonging to the object of his affections. 'Somehow, it didn't work out,' he added.

An anonymous user revealed he had had printed out lyrics by American band Green Day with 'I love you' written on the end, before taping them all over the desk and chair belonging to the object of his affections

And taking things to radical new extremes, one Redditor confessed to creating 'a fake website for a fake movie' at the age of 14 in order to convince a girl that he was starring in a movie.

He explained: 'The movie was for a remake of The Thing since the game was popular at the time, the website was purposely vague and mostly just blue text (almost like a viral site) and no, it did not get me laid because she was a lot smarter than I was.

One of the most cringe-inducing anecdotes came from Handeatingcat, who recalled: 'I knew which way she walked home from school, so one sick day I wrote " I LOVE HEIDI" in giant chalk letters on the sidewalk where I knew she'd pass.

'I hid in the bushes and when she walked by I yelled "Looook doown!". She promptly decided to speed walk the rest of the way home, I never told her it was me.'

Another anonymous user said they learned the hard way that their crush was taken, after they baked him an elaborate cake only for him to reply: 'Wow this is amazing. My wife is gonna love it too and probably want to know how you did this.'

AShashtagThrowaway wrote: 'She was already in the process of giving me the "thanks but no thanks", and in a bit of desperation I tried serenading her with some sweet No Doubt over the phone.

'I didn't even know the words to the song': One user recalled: 'I tried to sing her a song while playing it on the piano. I can't sing. I can't play piano, I just knew the basic tune and knew that the higher notes were to the left'

'18 years later and we are happily married... to other people.'

But by far the most cringe-inducing story came from projektmayhem, who recalled: 'I tried to sing her a song while playing it on the piano. I can't sing. I can't play piano, I just knew the basic tune and knew that the higher notes were to the left on the keyboard.

'I didn't even know the words to the song. Looking back, it was pretty obvious she didn't even want me to sing to her, she was being polite. Oh god OP, why did you make me re-live this memory.'